I almost made this post. Even though one instance of theft has little effect on a company, on a large scale theft has real effects - your gain is essentially someone else's loss, though it's much more complicated than that.

I don't steal but imo stealing from corporations isn't so bad. After all, when the actions of people working for/running these corporations **** up and get people hurt/killed often no one is held personally responsible. If people in a corporation can't be held personally responsible for hurting others, I don't necessarily feel bad for them on a personal level when they get "hurt" by stealing or whatever.

I remember grocery shopping once, turning the corner to go down an aisle and seeing a guy with his wife, filling his jacket with canned goods. He looked at me with an "oh ****" face. I just winked and smiled as I passed him. I doubt a guy's going to risk jail time to steal some canned food if he doesn't truly need it.

A+ trolling itt by Autocratic and I think by Shoe but I can't tell

lol at recent developments itt

I part timed in a grocery store in HS/beginning of university. We didn't give a **** if someone took them stems or w/e off, no one does. Yeah, I'd roll my eyes when people were being obviously stingy, but comparing that to actually not paying for an item is dumb.

You know at any of these grocery stores you can have them cut up a watermelon/any fruit and you can try it for free in store? They will alter the product to your demands, but you can't walk out of there without paying for something.

People like you are why customer service related industries have a hard time staffing anyone who doesn't have a terrible attitude. Sure, our job is to put the cards on the table and pay/take the bets but we are also there to provide our guests with a form of entertainment and as such, appreciate even a simple thank you with a tip being an added bonus.

Douche bags just like you who treat everyone like their servants are the scourge of the new generation and are a sign that our culture is failing to properly raise it's children. I hope that your next experience with customer service is exactly what you deserve, an attitude that mirrors your own.

And to correct you, I wasn't whining about the lack of a tip as much as the guy not even so much as saying thank you after recieving almost 100 grand and then having the audacity to lie about it afterwards making me look like a jerk when it came back around to my casino.

Awesome, I hope this can become a tipping thread as well as a ******ed argument about ethics!

My grandpa and your grandma should meet each other, my grandpa is the ****in same, he slows down when he sees a grocery store to have a peek at the prices, if its 5 cents cheaper, he buys it from there!

I used to work at a grocery store and they would take rotten fruit, cut out the bad parts, and package the good parts in a small plastic container and sell it that way.

Lagtastic is a terrible human being and it's not because he occasionally shoplifts.

It's the clear lack of guilt. It clearly doesn't even bother him. What a terrible, terrible abortion of a person.

Pathetic story being overlooked....

You sir, are my IDOL!!!!!!!!!!!

I agree with everything up to the "nothing to do with being stingy." Not that they go hand-in-hand, but stinginess *can* beget theft.

e.g., A person named Lag T. -- no, L. Tastic -- is going on a date with his boyfriend to the movies. He knows the date loves sno-caps, but he refuses to pay for them, because they cost too much. This is stingy. Maybe only mildly so, since those prices are gouged (and maybe I'm stingy for thinking so ), but it's stingy (def: refusing to spend).

So he decides to go to the grocery store or CVS to buy some sno-caps before hand. But the cashier tells him that his $0.25 off coupon expired last month, so after flexing to reassert dominance, he tells her he's not going to buy the sno-caps unless she takes the coupon. She says no, so he refuses to buy them (stingy). He goes to put them back. But then, since he's also a kleptomaniac, he decides to slip them into his man-purse satchel, making him a dirty, filthy, scumbag thief.

I think LT is not debating that he's a scumbag. He's just saying he's stingy also, which is true.

Agree with all except I also think he is stingy.

+1, and +1

Yes, that story needs more , cheap (stingy) bastard.

Yes, the shamelessness of the wedding story is outstanding.

LOL, this is not being stingy, its called being smart

My grocery store will take meat you give them that you picked up from the meat section, open it, trim off the fat, re-wrap, re-weigh and re-price it. Does it make me stingy when I have them do this?

There's a special butcher counter that does nothing but this. I fell stingy doing this, but I do it anyway.

own contribution.

i live in country a but study in country b.
petrol/gas/oil whatever u call it is like 20cens cheaper @ country b so i often fill in in country a for like 5 euro so i can barely reach country b to tank there full.

This reminds me that over Thanksgiving I was at a friends house and we decided to play some poker but couldn't find the chips. So his father-in-law, a retired doctor whose 2 kids are also doctors, has a few rolls of quarters sitting around the house that he lets us break up and use and every single roll had a nickel inside.

20 (euro) cents per litre is like >1/3 of the total cost of gas in the US. i'm sure almost anyone who isn't either rich or ******ed would do that in your position (thats like 10e/tank).

on the other hand, if you were filling up so little that you had a legitimate sweat every time you cross the border cuz you're not sure if youre gonna make it to the gas station, then you would be lol stingy.



imo true stinginess is being thrifty/cheap to the extent that it causes inconvenience or embarrassment to you or your acquaintances in excess of the monetary value saved.

stealing at the self checkout counter when nobody is ever going to know (unless you post it on the tubes) does not qualify.

yea i know it isnt thaaat stingy, but since someone commented on this behaviour of mine to be stingy, i thought id share it.
and 20cents are only like 15% of total costs here.

+1, this is what this thread is supposed to be all about

Filling up on gas in one geographic region where the price is substantially lower than the other region you are driving to is super standard. Just ask any Canadian (lol Canada) who lets his tank run down the days leading up to a trip to the US.

Driving across town twenty minutes to save two cents a gallon is stingy...




This thread may win a prize for the most horrible derails in a great thread.

A friend of mine was working at the MGM. Another dealer was dealing BJ to Ben Affleck and his gf att, J-Lo. When Ben is getting ready to leave, he hands the dealer a $5k chip as a tip (he's known for being a George).. when all of a sudden, J-Lo grabs the $5k chip and replaces it with a black $100 chip.

Now I wasn't one of those "I'm entitled to get phat tips" kinda dealers, but this struck me as ******.

One last one..

I'm standing on a dead game when the floor comes up and advises me that this really aggressive "*******" player will be arriving shortly. I knew who the guy was. All of the dealers who had dealt to him before said he was super cheap, never tipped, acted like dickhead, etc etc.

The guy shows up and immediately the floorman comes over and tells me to remove the spacers in the rack (that divide the stacks into stacks of 20). As I'm doing this, the player says it's ok, no need to remove them all. The floorman doesn't hear this, but I stopped anyway. He's got his pencil in my rack pushing on the spacers, "Take these out now!" That's when the player tells him "I told him to stop. Get away from me and go stand over there (he points to the podium) and don't look at me!" I start laughing. The guy looks at me and says "Wtf are you laughing? You think I'm being funny?" I tell the guy "No, I just think what you did was funny. If I had your money, I would love to do the same thing to him (embarrass that floorman)." The guy proceeds to tell me that I'm not a robot like most dealers.

Anyways, the guy, towards the end of his session, says he's going to play a few hands for me. He puts up $300 and I deal him a loser. He throws me $300 from his stack. I was like wtf? He says that if I win, I get the money. If he wins, I don't (some kind of weird reverse psychology I'm guessing). By the end, I end up dropping over $1500 from him.

A bunch of dealers come up to me on break and say "he was the worst, huh?", "biggest dickhead ever, huh?", "he's always cheap, right?", to which I say "Nah, I dropped $1500 off the dude." [.....dead silence]

Just marking my place so next year when the cull nominations come out I have recommendations.